Hi, I'm Ryan Green and I'm the director of Crosswalk.
What inspired me to make this short
was endless times standing at a crosswalk sign,
and every time I do, especially when there's just
no traffic coming in either direction and I'm standing there,
and I wait and I wait and I wait, I picture my ancestors,
maybe those that came across the daunting Atlantic on a boat
to check in to Ellis Island,
and I just picture them looking at me and saying, "Dude, what are you doing?"
You're waiting for a sign to tell you to cross a street
when you can see you can do it.
And I just somehow feel ashamed. (CHUCKLES)
It's just so annoying and red
and it's just sitting here telling me not to do things.
(BEEPS)
I was actually fortunate enough to be able to do the 2D intro myself,
animate it myself.
People should not start running out into traffic,
this is not an endorsement to just break the rules
and run through the middle of the street. Uh...
But I hope that people look at this piece and see it as the metaphor that it is.
Thanks for coming to watch the short and I really hope you enjoy it.
(WHISTLING)
(BEEPS)
-(GASPS) -(BIRD COOS)
(GASPS)
(COOS)
(BEEPS)
(TICKING)
(TICKING RAPIDLY)
-(GASPS) -(BEEPING)
(WHIMPERING)
No, no, no, no, no!
(SIGHS, CHUCKLES)
-(SIGN TRILLS) -(GASPS)
(MAN GASPS)
(GRUNTING)
(SIGN TRILLING)
(INHALES DEEPLY, GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
(GASPS)
(GASPS, GRUNTS)
(TRILLING RAPIDLY)
(GRUNTING)
(CONTINUES GRUNTING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(TRILLING)
(CHUCKLES)
(TRILLING)
(LAUGHING)
(TRILLING CONTINUES)
(EXCLAIMING)
(BEEPING)
MAN: Whoo!
(GASPS)
(CAR HORNS HONKING)
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
(SIGN TRILLS)